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That may be true. It would - however - involve reading the manual. Which feels less fun that attacking the bleeping thing with a selection of ever more destructive tools 🙂
a second cacophony of beeps warning me it has been removed
My Mini (and presumably ever other car) does this. It'll tell me I've not shut the boot properly, it then tells me that I've both taken off my seatbelt and that the driver's door is open...Yeah, cheers for that.
That is annoying. Reminds me of what I use to think of 'peak bong' renting any car in the US in the 90s, especially those with the seat belts that automatically extended. Bonging away while you're attempting to wrestle what probably looked a good idea in a lab into some kind of non bonging configuration. Hateful.
Related (and I've turned it off now) was the 'move' alert on my Garmin watch. Having just completed some all day ride so slumped on the sofa incapable of independent movement, it'd INSIST I got up and walk around as "I hadn't done enough exercise today"
peak bong’ ....in the 90s
Yes.
Being left-handed in a right-handed world is a constant stream of micro-aggressions
*points at the sinister man* 🙂
I moved away 30+ years ago and in the intervening time no one has learned to drive or park. I maintain if you want to practise for rush hour Parisian peripherique then small towns in SW Scotland are the best place as there's no rhyme nor reason to the next angle of attack. Yes I'm blocked in and that silver car is parked.
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Actually I'm on holiday so not cross.
My coffee machine bleeping madly at me that the reservoir needs refilling.
My air fryer beeps when it's done. 60 times. Six zero, sixty, I counted it. That's at least 59 too many.
It wouldn't get past about ten, before the "unbeeping hammer" was righteously smiting the unworthy 🙂
People who park one wheel on the pavement. A wheelchair or pushchair can't get past on the pavement and cars still need to wait for a gap to pass the van. I'm looking at you https://www.bucksgardenrooms.co.uk/ - 3 vans in Hyde Heath today
User Manuals/training for IT stuff, particulary software that is esigned to be used by non-IT specialists. Things like useful user interfaces on data bases etc...
Apple have never produced a manual for an iPhone, and yet anyone in teh world can pretty much pick one up and use it.
Why do UI designers not grasp that fact that, if you cannot make it sufficnelty intuitive/self explanatory to not need a manual/dedicated trainnig, its not firt for purpose?
My Samsung washing machine that plays the North Korean? at every opportunity.
Actually, about the whole Stephen king on a kindle experience. I found that it’s more streamlined and cheaper on the actual kindle itself.
still no dark tower compendium and David Ickes publishers could gen up on the economic concept of price elasticity.
Ok this is not really a minor thing but I hate and loathe the way folk say to disabled or dying folk "you are so brave" Away and shite. Brave is when you have a choice. You get no choice in these things - your only choice is to make the best of it or hide under the duvet.
Its effing patronising to say "look how brave they are" or " aren't you being brave"
When Julie was dying we had a pact that if anyone called her brave then she could punch them 🙂 One doctor came close to getting lamped. Patronising cow!
Team orders in F1.
That these are no longer in print:
Nice, handy A6 size.
Maybe included with a subs to STW?
Back to the kindle.
You download a sample of a book. Then when you buy the book, it still retains the sample in your library. Why? It’s just a waste of storage, and it’s all too easy to click on the sample, instead of the purchased version.
GRRRRRRR!
and at this price, doesn’t it warrant a reprint?
By Tom Prentice [ LOCH LOMOND AND THE TROSSACHS NATIONAL PARK 60 WALKS WESTBY PRENTICE, TOM](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK https://amzn.eu/d/01yXTUj8
it’s still relevant ten years after its last edition. It’s not like the hills have up-sticks and taken off:)
^^maybe in a version for anyone who struggles to pronounce ‘Trossachs, Loch, etc’^^
Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.
Also, people who are so narrow-minded that they get bent out of shape over people doing something that’s been a part of human existence for at least 5000 years. The word ‘petty’ springs lightly to mind here. And they have to tell everyone else just how petty-minded they are.
I have tattoos, nearly thirty so far, and most are on my arms, and the majority have a meaning. I’ve also been complimented on them by quite a few people. I’m not stopping wearing tee shirts in warm weather just to make people like you feel better about themselves. Not gonna happen, sunshine!
I genuinely don't understand the negative reaction to tattoos these days. Once of a time it was edgy and shocking, often a show of rebellion, the sort of thing you'd have to consciously try not to stare at. Today teenage girls routinely get them, it's normal.
I understand not liking them, that's just personal taste like not liking hats or pink and that's fair enough. But pearl-clutching about them is odd behaviour.
Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.
Do you buy pictures to hang on walls in your house and then cover them all up with towels in case anyone sees them?
Random long eyebrow hairs that stick up and make me look a bit like Denis Healey. I can cope with wrinkles. I can cope with going grey and balding, But this is one step too far.
Pringles are far less structurally stable for scooping salsa than Doritos.
Random long eyebrow hairs that stick up and make me look a bit like Denis Healey. I can cope with wrinkles.
On the other hand, it's considerably harder to pluck out wrinkles.
Got refused using a photo on my phone of my friend's club card that I've been merrily using for God knows how long, so.
I had to abandon my trolly at the checkout. Cue 'shocked Pikachu face' from the cashier.
Friend has just orded me a key fob card though.
They should just be forced to lower their prices for everyone rather blackmailing customers into agreeing to thier data harvesting.
Getting bombarded with emails to rate companies I have shopped with online. Isn't it enough I am spending my money with you without you nagging me to massage your online ego.
Most online reviews of items make me angry as they are either written 30 seconds after receiving the item in question or are actually a negative review of the courier.
Yeah that does make me question the collective sanity of the human race... Item arrived late...one star, or the the ultimate... "looks ok but have not had cance to use it yet, so 1 star"
The chuff???
I think the problem with tattoos is that the designs are so cliched.
the idea behind people being administered DMT (legally mandated, under clinical supervision), was to bring back from these higher dimensions, some kind of art.
But so far I’ve seen no inspiring tattoos, no revelatory duvet cover designs at ikea. Not so much as a trippy cushion cover.
come on people. It’s only the shackles of cultural convention and the law that’s holding you back. (Don’t try this at home):)
Well, if and when I get one it'll be a unique design rather than flash.
That said, any problem with flash is down to the beholder.
Still waiting on the big supermarkets, etc to allow us to scan our loyalty cards by using our smar****ches.
Doesnt need to be the entire suite of IT permutations. Just transfer the unique barcode and discount options.
Simples.
Im fed up turning up at Morrisons, clutching a fistful of discounts and special offers. Or forgetting to take them in the first place.
And paying with my mobile is nice, but it’s starting to feel like a house brick.
Just saying there’s a similar lack of design flair. Are people running out of ideas?
Still waiting on the big supermarkets, etc to allow us to scan our loyalty cards by using our smar****ches.
My watch does this, and it's obsolete.
Shit drivers that tailgate and have absolutely no awareness of the traffic. As a motorcyclist this makes me cross, maybe more cross than it should? But at times I feel like slowing to a halt and asking the driver behind what they're trying to achieve but I reckon that's a punitive exercise.
The guy who was in such a rush he drove through against priority but not in such a rush that he didn’t stop to debate my exaggerated shrugging gesture and whether it was a judgement on him as a person.
Amazon asks me to review my upcoming deliveries.
Slight flaw in your plan here, guys…
I got this today and thought it was weird at first.
Is it a recurring/regular/subscription thingy purchase? I think they mean review as in "check it's all ok before we ship it out soon" rather than "leave a review saying how awesome it is before you get it".
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That said, mentioning Amazon reminds me...
Amazon Seller Support. Customer service for sellers.
Trying to deal with them is the most infuriating thing ever. I swear their internal policy must be something like this:
1 - Only ever hire utter morons.
2 - When answering support cases, only ever read the first sentence.
3 - If you can get away with a boilerplate template response, touching vaguely on the subject matter but ignoring the specific question, do it!!
4 - Every response to a case must be answered by a different agent. Under no circumstances must anyone ever read back over the full case, only look at the (first sentence of) the most recent response.
5 - If the seller has managed to clearly state the problem in the first sentence, be as obtuse as possible.
Aaargh
Why are you using Amazon? You say the customer service is shite, they are unethical at best. why use them?
Why are you using Amazon?
Two reasons, the online book sellers have pretty much migrated to Amazon, they use it's front, but I'm dealing with 'a company' Amazon take a cut fo'shure, but it's one of the best ways to keep small indy. booksellers (especially niche stuff like academic books on history, literature etc etc) going. Secondly for the sorts of stuff that it's difficult (if not impossible) to buy from traditional sources. I use small dripper pipettes for a hobby, I can buy half a years supply in one go delivered to my door for pennies.
"The guy who was in such a rush he drove through against priority but not in such a rush that he didn’t stop to debate my exaggerated shrugging gesture and whether it was a judgement on him as a person."
If he didn't stop then he may well have been in a rush.
Politicians do this fake thing of pretending to see someone in the crowd they know, pointing at them and pretending to greet them. It really triggers me it, so obviously fake and cringe worthy, and they all do it now.
Politicians do this fake thing of pretending to see someone in the crowd they know, pointing at them and pretending to greet them. It really triggers me it, so obviously fake and cringe worthy, and they all do it now.
You could've just stopped after the first word.
Actually, in the ‘why can’t I use my smar****ch to scan my loyalty card at the supermarket?”
Tescos. Yes.
Waitrose. Yes.
Similairly, my easyJet boarding pass materialised on the wallet on my phone and my smar****ch. Top marks, there.
It would be convenient if I could use the smar****ch to identify myself at the gp’s surgery as well.
As for Morrisons, the staff at the self checkout area must waste so much time, trying to help customers to scan their vouchers.